Singular v plural. If we compare apples to apples (i.e. "Europeans" v "Polynesians" perhaps 1000 years ago, there would be something in that argument with respect to the number of oceans both peoples had explored (Europeans-N Atlantic v Polynesians-central Pacific). But by Cook's time there was no comparison. Europeans had navigated all 5 of the worlds oceans to a high lattitude both N and S, while Polynesians had not sailed beyond the Pacific- but even here they lacked a comprehensive knowledge of the entire region. For example, Cook had a Tahitian holy man, Tupaia, on board the Endeavour, who acted as a local guide, yet knew nothing of New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea or the Indonesian Archipelago. Nor did he know about Hawaii, Easter Island, the Asian/Russian coasts, north American coast or several others. He certainly had no knowledge of the Pacific below 40 degrees south, or for that matter, 40 degrees north, such that Polynesian knowledge is not thought to have extended to the polar or temperate regions. They did make it as far east as the Chilean coast, but their knowledge of this coast was patchy at best, even after hundreds of years. Where they excelled was in hop-scotching between islands, which is how their collective database steadily grew. To our knowledge, no single Polynesian individual has ever been reported to have covered this entire territory on their own, let alone beyond. This is why Cook, who circumnavigated the entire globe (several times), through blue water, without losing a single man to scurvy, despite being at sea for months at a time without sight of land is such an extraordinary figure of history. The maps he drew far excelled the primitive and inaccurate charts of the Portuguese and Spanish, being used by mariners even up to the 1970s. The lives saved by his incredible work are innumerable. Up until his time, it was typical for crew losses on oceanic voyages to be in the order of 60-70 percent.

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He got recalled to Spain and gaoled by Queen Isabella because of his corruption and mistreatment of indigenous people. In this case we are not so much talking about history books, but Spanish court documents.

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